Adjustments to Ease Solo Travel Follow

Hey everyone,

As we have recently made adjustments so that adventurers could easily travel through the Quicksand Caves solo without the need for an army of galkas to step on the weight platform, there have been various requests for similar adjustments in other areas that require multiple adventurers to travel about.

We currently have two areas that we are planning to adjust:

Garliage Citadel

We plan on restructuring the requirements to access the Banishing Gates when traveling solo. The main reasoning for this is due to the fact that we are currently revamping various quests such as “In Defiant Challenge” to make it easier to complete without requiring the assistance of others.

Castle Oztroja

We are also planning to change the requirements necessary to open the Brass Door at the very top of Castle Oztroja.

Moving forward, we will continue to make adjustments to make sure your travels and adventures are more enjoyable.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/23405-Adjustments-to-Ease-Solo-Travel?p=316235#post316235

Because everyone who's level 60 and trying to do their limit break is going to have that?

Gotta try to not look through the perspective of your decked out capped level characters when you evaluate changes like these.

Didn't know lv25 THF or powder boots were considered "decked out".

its not that hard to get past the door in Oz. just need a little movement + gear. who's complaining that's too hard?

All they REALLY need to do for that door is make it stay open at least 10 seconds longer and move the yags away from at least one of the torches.

I almost wonder what sort of far-more-complicated-than-needs-to-be solution they're going to come up with.

Hermes' Quencher can be used by all jobs. It's how I solo'd the quest back in the day.

While that works great for 99% of the trips you make past the first gate, there's at least one quest I can think of that is impossible to complete without 4 people to open the gate.

The final THF artifact quest requires touching points within Garliage without zoning. Since the first point is in front of the first gate and the second is behind, currently the only way to complete the quest is the traditional method of opening the first gate.

nothing about the three mage gate, huh?

3mage gate can already be opened solo via Portal Charm. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Portal_Charm

Even in this day and age, you'd be amazed at how many players don't have access through Win. Walls. Anytime I joined a group that had business in T. Canal, I was usually the only one that could get in that way. And most of the time, I was the portal charm holder having to open the 3 Mage door for them.

That happened to me all the time. I spent all that time getting the back door access, only to still have to go the long way around every time.

yeah. I don't think they understand the difference between "annoying" and "challenging"

Hermes' Quencher can be used by all jobs. It's how I solo'd the quest back in the day.

Honestly, not getting aggro and dying is harder than getting through the door.

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“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”

“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”

A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

“What?” they said.

“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

I can't say that I've ever felt satisfied to open a door, but I've heard of a door being satisfied to open: